Hooray! Things to be happy about today :)

There are heaps of things for me to feel happy about today:

Marsden B
First and foremost the plan to recommission Marsden B has been scrapped! Hooray! Woohoo!! Yaaay! A victory for every greenie in the country, and a victory for commonsense.

Here's the Green party press release: Mighty River Power sees the light - at last. And here's Greenpeace's take on it: VICTORY! Marsden B is no more - with some suggestions for futher action over the coming months.

I celebrated by switching power companies. I used to be with Genesis, but I will soon be a proud user of Meridian Energy's electricity - New Zealand's only certified carbon neutral electricity generator. Why don't you make the switch too? Just think how much less CO₂ we'd produce if enough of us made the switch to clean energy! Check out the Clean Energy Guide to find out more about your power company - and how to make the change.

Scooter Libby
So ol' Scooter went 4 for 5 in the old "guilty" verdicts yesterday. Hooray for a sensible jury who listened to the arguments and then took a massive 10 days to make up their minds. Wonder how he feels, knowing that he's the fall guy for some pretty high-up people in the Bush administration (I'm looking at you, Dick and Karl!).

Here's some background on Lewis "Scooter" Libby by Wikipedia - and here is the most fascinating account of the trial by Denis Collins, Juror #9: Inside the Jury Room. It's brilliant.

(My Teevy boyfriend) Clay Aiken
I was over at Technorati today, checking out what everyones' searching on, and to my complete amazement, there was Clay at #3 in the most popular searches! Apparently he's been there for a couple of days at least. Interesting!

As I haven't been around the CH very much recently I had to race over to Clay Blogs to see what was happening - and what massive piece of ClayNews I had missed. I'm not quite sure, but I think it's that there might possibly be some news about his upcoming summer tour at some point. Soon. Maybe.

Apparently so far we know of two concerts - July 20 at Chautauqua Institution, NY (tickets go on sale April 2nd) and August 2 at Embarcadero Marina Park South, San Diego, CA (tickets go on sale April 2nd).

Ahhhh - the power of the ClayNation. Two measly tour dates announced and Clay shoots into the top #3 at Technorati. I love it! Looks like there might be another trip to the US on my horizon...

The person I like
I seem to be getting on extra-well with the person I rather like. Which is very nice indeed. I have no idea if anything will ever happen - I may be in the grip of a massively unrequited crush, or it just might be taking them a while to realise the wonderfulness that is me. Whichever it is, our developing friendship is making me very happy. Yaay!

Canoeing down the Whanganui River
A bunch of us from Shift (me and four of the boyz) just spent three days canoeing down the Whanganui River. It.was.bloody.wonderful. Watch out for my blog post (complete with Ross's pics and crazy video) coming soon!

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